two state solution dead with netanyahu at the helm in israel? and if the u.s. and donald trump no longer makes a two state solution, its policy. it could be, if. >> not for saudi arabia, sticking to the two state solution as the only way it will move forward with any sort of rapprochement with israel. so trump is going to have to get educated about that. netanyahu is going to come in with some compelling stories of how the hostages have been treated. steve witkoff, the middle east envoy, has been spending time on the ground with hostage families. he's going to be hearing about all the bad things that hamas has done and how hamas needs to be defanged, but then you're going to have riyadh come in and say, i'm the king of jordan is supposed to be visiting soon as well, saying, the only way that you will have peace in the middle east, true peace, if is if there is a two state palestinian independent

state solution. >> yeah. and we know that some of the hostages are here in town and sending a message to both the prime minister and the president as there are more hostages there, as well as palestinians who are living in a hellscape in gaza, wondering what is next. kim dozier, thank you so much. a new hour of cnn news central starts right now. >> so breaking this morning, standing by to see the markets open after the new trade war launched overnight, president trump backed away from two fights. why is he moving ahead with this one? thousands of aid workers in limbo this morning with millions, maybe billions of dollars in aid, twisting in the wind as elon musk takes a sledgehammer to u.s. soft power. and good news for millions of americans living with chronic pain. the fda approves the first new painkiller since the late 90s. what it does not include

might be the biggest difference. i'm john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. this is cnn news central. >> and the breaking news. overnight, one trade war ramps up, this one between donald trump and beijing and two others. simmer down as donald trump makes a u-turn on tariffs against mexico and canada. for now, and just as quickly as the tariffs on china set in, china is striking back, promising a 15% tax on u.s. coal, a 10% tax on u.s. crude and other products like agriculture, agricultural machinery and certain cars and trucks. and on top of all that, china says, we'll see you and raise you another. the chinese government is now putting a new target on u.s. companies specifically accusing some big name brands of market trading violations. brands like calvin

klein and tommy hilfiger, and then there's google, also now facing an investigation by china for allegedly violating the country's anti-monopoly regulations. that's even though the company is not even operating there. cnn's alayna treene is at the white house this morning with much more on this. so while the president was sleeping and waking up, china decided to retaliate, promising these tariffs are coming. what are you hearing from the white house now? what do they do? >> that's right. i mean, we really could see even further tariffs on this, kate. we did hear the president yesterday in the oval office call these tariffs, as you mentioned, a blanket 10% tariffs on all chinese goods coming into the united states, saying that it's an opening salvo, essentially arguing that perhaps we could see these go even higher. i would note as well and kind of remind you that throughout donald trump's time on the campaign trail, he actually talked about a far greater level. he talked about 60% tariffs on china. of course, this is only 10%. so as the

president said yesterday, this could just be the start of all of this. but i'd also note that we are expecting both president donald trump and chinese president xi jinping to speak in the coming days. one thing, of course, that is top of mind for a lot of people right now is whether or not they could find some sort of deal to avert what is already begun with this trade war, with this back and forth kind of measure and then countermeasure that we are seeing. and of course, we did see the president reach some sort of deal with both canada and mexico. tariffs that were supposed to go into effect as well at 12:01 a.m., but that because of conversations between president donald trump and mexico's president claudia sheinbaum, as well as canadian prime minister justin trudeau, they were able to put pause on that for one month. now, part of that is because we did see and this is something the white house celebrated. we saw mexico's president say that they were going to send an extra 10,000 troops to the southern border. and then we also saw prime minister justin trudeau

agree to name a fentanyl czar to set up a joint u.s. canada border task force and also spend more than $1 billion on helicopters and technology to secure the 49th parallel. but one thing that i do want to also make clear is that even though they have averted this, these tariffs and, you know, are waking up relieved, we saw the stock markets kind of rally on the news. that doesn't mean that they are necessarily out of the clear. and we heard the president kind of discuss this yesterday when talking about canada, saying he's expecting so much more from them in the coming weeks. take a listen to what he said. >> look what i'd like to see canada become our 51st state. we give them protection. military protection. we we don't need them to build our cars. i'd rather see detroit or south carolina or any one of our tennessee, any one of our states build the cars. they could do it very easily. we don't need them for the cars. we don't need them for lumber. we don't need them for anything. >> so, kate, there you hear the

president talking about what he had said previously, that perhaps he wants canada to become the 51st state. also, this is very different from what the president was initially saying these tariffs were for. of course, he said he wants them to stop the stem of migrants and drugs from coming into the united states. so very much. still a lot to come on this front. kate. >> good point. it's great to see you and thank you for your reporting, john. >> all right. with us now is cnn political commentator and former trump white house communications director alyssa farah. griffin, also former biden white house director of message message planning megan hayes. all right, alyssa, the wall street journal editorial board, their headline, the whole tariff thing. canada, mexico and pre china was this trump blinks on north american tariffs. the president pauses after minor concessions from canada and mexico. they say trump blinks. i wonder if this is playing out. if you think it is like he thinks it is. is this the big win? he thinks he's

getting? >> i suspect the white house thinks it is. >> a big win. >> and listen, they've got. >> a. >> media ecosystem. >> on the right. >> that's going. >> to. >> affirm that. the wall street journal also called it the. >> dumbest trade war. >> in history. >> i'm very critical. >> traditionally, republicans have not been in favor. >> of tariffs. and kind of the weapons that he's using to try to negotiate trade deals. and i would remind you, one of the biggest victories of the first trump administration that i worked in was the usmca, which was the mexico and canada trade agreement with the u.s. so this is we are operating in the terms that donald trump and the republican congress set. he seems very bothered by them. that said, they're in spin mode. and it may it may work on the right basically saying he got major concessions from both mexico and canada. i guess china would be next. but this i don't know how long this is going to hold. they're going to have to get back to the negotiating table in one month. and what is he going to ask for then and what are they willing to give up? >> you know, you said congressman pat ryan, who represents a swing district. he's a democrat but represents a swing district here in new york. and he was really leaning into the tariffs as something that hurt regular people, help

the elites, hurts the regular people. i do wonder if that is the message that's resonating out there in swing districts. >> i do. >> think. >> it is. it's the message that is the actual truth here. i think that donald trump had to capitulate because he saw the markets go down and he saw bipartisan criticism happening when he went to enact these tariffs. so i think that he had to give in and he had to just take less from them because he knew that these were going to be impactful to the middle class, and it wasn't going to lower costs. it was going to increase costs rather quickly. and he also saw canada come back with more tariffs on us. and he knows that if people want to rebuild their homes in l.a., they're going to need lumber from canada. if people want to buy fresh fruits and vegetables, they're going to need them from mexico. so this was going to cost the american people a lot of money. and he saw that with all the criticism yesterday and had to give in. >> yeah. again, i guess my question is, is the battlefield exactly what trump thought it was going in, or has it maybe shifted just a little bit when you see the markets unsteady, when you see swing congressmen

really deciding to pick up the fight rather than back off, which is what you normally see when they think something is politically contentious or explosive. elon musk is another thing that pat ryan leaned into there. he said, you have to call out villains when you see them. and right now, elon musk is a villain and very much a part of everything that we're seeing every day. so much so now that president trump, i don't know if he's trying to put some distance between him and musk or not, but listen to what he said. >> elon can't do and won't do anything without our approval, and we'll give him the approval where appropriate. we're not appropriate. we won't. >> so what did you hear there? >> yeah, not a ringing endorsement. well, elon musk, once a very popular figure for tesla and some of the incredible things he's done with starlink, has a lower approval rating with the american public than donald trump does now. but to trump's advantage, he can kind of make elon the hatchet job hatchet man in the administration. so whether it's going after usaid or now, it looks like the

department of education, he can allow him to take the measures he wants to to scale back the workforce. and if the public receives it poorly, he can kind of put it on elon's shoulders. this is sort of a classic trump way of going about getting things done and not necessarily taking responsibility. but i've said from the outset, i don't think this relationship is going to last long. there's one star of the show, they both have big main energy, character, main character energy. but donald trump is the one in charge. and if there's enough criticism of elon's actions, he's going to let him take the blame. >> on main character energy. >> i see. >> megan, there are two major votes. senate confirmation votes scheduled for today. the process moves along on robert kennedy jr. and tulsi democrats. i think last week had hoped that maybe there was a way they could derail these nominations. how does it feel to you this morning? >> yeah. >> it doesn't feel like that's going to happen. i mean, i think we have senator cassidy who could stop rfk coming out of committee, but i think that these will probably make it out of committee. committee, which is really disappointing. i think that both of these nominees are really problematic for very

different reasons. they're both woefully unqualified for their jobs, but i think that they will probably get out of committee and probably pass unless we see something else come to light in the public eye. but i just don't know that that's going to happen. >> confirmation is assured at this point. alyssa. >> i think it's very likely all eyes on todd young on the tulsi gabbard confirmation. of course, bill cassidy, a doctor himself with regard to rfk jr.. but there's been tremendous pressure from trumpworld on these republicans to support his nominees primary threats. there's also been reporting that they even feel that there's threats and dangers potentially to them if they don't vote for these individuals. so i think in all likelihood, both go through. >> all right, lisa griffin, megan hayes, great to see both of you. thanks so much, sarah. >> all right. ahead, new details on the sudden and chaotic shutdown of. usaid workers locked out of their office with no notice. i'll speak with one of the workers caught up in the chaos next. and another massive arm of the government, now under threat of dismantling. what do teachers think about donald trump's promise to erase the

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were told to stay home. joining me now is kristina drye. she is a speechwriter for usaid and was one of the many employees not allowed to go into work. you. thank you so much for joining us. i know this is a difficult time personally and on a larger scale for you because you believe in the work that usaid does. you have said that people could die if funds are cut off to the places that usaid funds. do you mean that literally? >> yes. >> first of. >> all. >> thank. you so. >> much. >> sarah, for having me today. >> it has been a tough time. but yeah, i do believe. >> that that people. >> will die without. >> this work. >> usaid. >> you know, provides. >> life saving care. >> to people around. >> the world. >> medical care in the form of. >> pepfar, hiv access vaccines. they also provide. >> critical food aid. >> to people. >> who are. >> starving. >> they provide critical support around. >> the world.

>> in conflict zones and otherwise. and without this support. from the u.s. >> government at. >> usaid, people will. >> die around the world. >> and it's a. >> heavy thing to feel as someone who's. worked so hard for it. >> i am familiar with usaid because having lived abroad, many of times when there is a disaster, usaid would would be there bringing in necessary aid for people. so i've seen the work firsthand, but but how did you find out what was happening at your office, at your work? um, what happened when you were sort of told, don't come in to work, don't come to the office? >> yeah. >> so your questions or my questions as well, i think. >> you know, friday, we. knew that. >> people were in the building. and saturday morning i. >> woke up and all of our websites were down. we hadn't. >> been given any. >> information about those websites being. down or loss of our files and access. >> and then. >> saturday around 7 p.m., i tried to log in on my computer, and the whole systems are just.

absolutely down. >> um, our. >> contractors are. not informed of what's happening. they can't tell us, you know, when we're going to get access back, if we're going to be able to get access back, if we're getting a paycheck, if we're getting any of these things. so there was no information to any employees. and i know it's not only me, it's hundreds of employees across usaid workforce here at home and abroad. >> you know, there is the the other side of this, where some americans and you've seen it, but i know you've seen it online. i know you hear it from those who support donald trump, who say, look, the federal government, in their view, is bloated. they believe that there needs to be some sort of culling, just like companies lay people off. so i'm curious, you know, what you think and what you would say to people who say, look, why does usaid need a speechwriter? why does usaid have these hundreds of jobs? why does it have to be so big? >> right? i think that's such a

fantastic question. and at usaid, we save people around the world so that we can save and protect the american people. and that work often goes unseen. but it's everything from, you know, looking at land mines and taking them out of field so our soldiers are safe. it is everything from monitoring famines around the world so that we can prevent these famines and thus prevent instability, which will affect, you know, american citizens here at home. so there's a lot of things at usaid that go on that people don't see, because the entire purpose is that we don't see the impact. it's preventative care. for example, for american security, it's a crucial tool in the national security toolbox for our country. and it also happens to be a great thing for people around the world. so any sector can, you know, be in good faith, examined and improved. but this is a dire outcome, i think, for something that is so

necessary for just 1% of the federal budget. >> i'm curious about two things to end here. one is what you make of elon musk having this enormous amount of power who has not been elected to office but has been given this great deal of power by donald trump and u.s. aid, is one of the first to be targeted by him and his his doge group. and why you think that u.s. aid was one of the first to be culled, if you will yeah, i think i'll start off by saying that every single public servant i've ever worked with, including myself, has an oath to serve the american people. >> and when the american people mandate a leader through a democratic election, then that is what we serve. i would say in in my personal thought, representing myself, that the american people did not mandate, you know, elon musk to be in this role. and and so it feels

disjointed. and then i think that usaid represents the best of the american people. it represents empathy. it represents a respect for human dignity. it represents care for others around the world. and it represents, you know, truly the best of what we can give in our generosity. and i think that in the current environment, that's that's being overshadowed by assumptions about the work. and all i can say for my fellow, you know, usaid employees around the world is that the kind of empathy and care that we see in this workforce is absolutely outstanding. and now we have hundreds of thousands of people that don't know what's next. >> i think you sort of touched on this at usaid is about sort of the hearts and minds and helping and sort of that soft diplomacy as opposed to, you know, coming in with, with a much harder line. kristina drye, thank you so much. good luck to you and your colleagues. i know you were going through it, trying to figure out whether or

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shoes sold in the united states are imported. 99%, and most of them come from china. joining me right now is matt priest. he's the president and ceo of the footwear distributors and retailers of america, a leading footwear trade group that represents dozens of companies like nike, dsw, crocs, under armor and walmart. it's good to see you again. matt, i look back, we talked back in november about what could be coming in terms of tariffs, and here we are today. let's focus in on china since that's where it's all setting in. and that is where most footwear sold in the united states is coming from. what is a new 10% tariff on footwear going to mean? >> it's going to mean higher prices for american consumers. kate, you know, look, we brought in about $10 billion in value for footwear from china last year. 10%. i'm not a mathematician, but 10% is about $1 billion in additional costs at the border paid by american companies. and so that $1 billion has to go somewhere. it's got to be absorbed somewhere for companies to be

competitive, to continue to have profitability. and so right now, our companies are trying to figure out, okay, how much can we provide and push out to the consumer to cover these costs and still maintain jobs here in the states, still ensure that we're bringing in great product. and so it's a lot of uncertainty right now, and we're trying to figure it all out. >> is there any universe, matt, where consumers don't pay a higher price with when these when new tariffs like this are ordered? >> there isn't a universe that we've seen ever. in fact, if you look at the president's own data that comes out of the u.s. government, it shows that there's an unmistakable correlation as duties go up on footwear at the border, those prices go up for consumers. the two lines are interlinked. and so we're a warning cry to the broader economy here in the states that we've been paying duties since 1930. we pay upwards of $4 billion a year in duties. we had an additional 7.5% placed on footwear coming out of china in 2019. that drove up costs. and here we are again

in 2025. and our hope is that the president and his team understands that these drive up costs for consumers. they are inflationary in nature and for us to try to tamp down on inflation, which was the mandate that the president received from the american people. we want to help them do that. but this is not on the top of the list of things you should do to tamp down inflationary costs. >> would this be on the top of the list of a surefire way to raise prices and kind of increase inflation? >> yeah, i mean, it is a surefire way. again, these costs are paid by american companies that employ americans. and the bill, the invoice, i've seen them myself. that goes to the u.s. customs and border protection, department of homeland security, and that those costs have to be buried somewhere, and the consumer is going to take those on. not to mention the fact that this is applied to all goods. so discretionary income for working families is going to be is going to be, you know, even tighter as prices go up across different consumer goods and sectors of

the economy. >> and matt, shares of nike, crocs, steve madden, skechers and other footwear companies, they fell on monday. what are you hearing from footwear executives today? >> yeah. so the big question is around costing and pricing. so what what do we do right now when it's a 10% tariff? and as the president said yesterday in the oval office, this is the opening salvo. or it could be the opening salvo. and so for us, a lot of our companies might even hedge their bets to where they'll bake in, maybe even a higher cost increase just to cover themselves. because when this was announced last week, we literally had, you know, 72 hours, four days, whatever the number is to when these things hit, we cost these goods six months ago. and so when when product is on the water, when product is being manufactured and then shipped, if there's a 10% tariff, now, who's to say there won't be a higher 130 days from now or april 1st when the president's trade review is due? and so our members have to kind of start thinking about higher costs beyond the 10% just to hedge bets going into the

spring season and beyond. >> donald trump said yesterday from the oval office, he was speaking about canada. and what he said is we don't basically we don't need canada. we want to build. we want to see. he wants to see cars built in detroit and south carolina, not not in canada. we don't need them for cars. we don't need them for lumber. we don't need them for anything, is what donald trump said about canada. if or when president trump says we don't need china to make our footwear, what do you say to that? >> you know, i think that we've thought about diversification since 2010, kate. and so this is a narrative we've picked up long before the president was elected. the first time around, we wanted to diversify. it's a challenge to move from a capital perspective. factories and labor and the materials needed to serve the american people. we import in 2.5 billion pairs of shoes every single year. that's an insatiable appetite for footwear. americans love shoes as they should, you know, john said, maybe we shouldn't buy more shoes. we should definitely be buying more shoes. but the fact of the matter is, you know,

when it comes down to producing in china, it serves a purpose. and for many of our global brands, it serves a purpose to manufacture there and to distribute in other countries, again, which supports american jobs. so for us, it's not a it's not a no china. and then everything else, it's a diversifying across the supply chain, allowing us to find opportunities to serve the american people, particularly working class families and market segments with product from all over. but including china. and then to continue to look for opportunities to to diversify. >> let us see what happens in the coming hours. now, especially when it comes to your industry. it's good to see you again, matt. thanks for coming in. sarah. >> i just want you to know that i hope my husband and yours is watching because he said that we should buy more shoes. >> yeah. that's also yeah, whenever someone says buy less shoes, i clearly i become deaf immediately. >> all right. thanks, kate. great interview. ahead, the trump administration could take another step toward dismantling

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>> to 52%. but as some republican senators have come. >> out like susan collins. >> in support of her, her chances have gone through the roof. >> robert f. kennedy. >> jr. to be the hhs secretary. >> he's up to 82%. again, that is. also higher than it was a week ago. at this particular point, the two most controversial picks remaining for donald trump seem to see their prospects going through the. >> roof. at this hour. >> what about the field, as it were? >> what about the field? so the remaining picks chance of trump, of trump, trump's picks being confirmed. the average besides gabbard and rfk, you can't really get much higher than 99%. so look, there's a chance, i guess, you know, a 1 in 1,000,000, basically, or a 1 in 100 inches this particular case that one of the remaining picks do not get confirmed. but the bottom line at this hour is rfk jr. tulsi gabbard look likely to be confirmed, and the rest of the field looks really, really, really likely to be confirmed. >> so in the end, although we're not there yet. but imagine for a second we were at the end here looking back on all of donald trump's nominations, some of which were very controversial.

how did he do in terms of getting them through? >> yeah. you know, matt gaetz obviously decided to step aside. and that's the one so far. the one cabinet pick who was withdrawn or rejected, i looked at all first or of course, the second nonconsecutive term in the case of trump and compared that to the average presidential first term since 1993, where there were three picks that were either withdrawn or rejected. donald trump, simply put, is winning on this metric. only one pick so far has been withdrawn or rejected, and that looks like it's going to hold through the rest of this. we'll have to wait and see. but the bottom line is trump's picks have been doing better than the average in terms of getting through the united states senate. simply put in a word, he's winning. >> getting the people he wants more so than the historic norm. harry enten. thank you. thank you very much, kate. >> and this morning, the wall street journal is reporting that president trump's advisers are discussing an executive order that could shut down key functions is how it's put of the department of education, effectively moving toward

dismantling the department altogether. and sources tell cnn the department sent letters to employees putting dozens on paid administrative leave on friday, those employees informed their email accounts were being suspended. and that move is part of the overall trump administration effort to eliminate dni initiatives throughout federal agencies. joining me right now is randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the country representing educators, school staff and government employees. randi, this reporting from the wall street journal. just to dive into it a little bit more, is there basically weighing how to dismantle and how far they can go to dismantle the department of education? here's the line. the officials have discussed an executive order that would shut down all functions of the agency that aren't written explicitly into statute, or move certain functions to other departments. that's according to people familiar with the matter. do you think this move is legal? can they do it? so the.

>> move is not legal. >> meaning? i mean, and even. >> there, first off, thank you for having me on. >> the move is not legal in that even they recognize that. there are lots of. >> things about the department of education that. >> are in statute. let me just talk about the most important things. the money that goes out for kids with disabilities, the money that goes out for kids who are low income, the money that goes out for the career tech ed programs, the money that goes out for work study programs, the money that goes out for kids who are learning english. you're talking about millions of kids and what that department really does is it actually makes sure that the money goes out and it's not stolen. it is actually used for the intended purposes. those are the most important functions of the department of education. they don't, you know, they don't do curriculum. they don't do other types of things. they do financial aid for students. they do this kind of stuff. so those kind of

things are written into statute and can't be changed. but for congress. but let me just say one more thing. symbolically, if we need to outeducate china and outcompete with china, we need to have some federal policy that actually shows how to do that. so, like linda mcmahon and i both love the swiss apprenticeship model, and we think more high schools in america should both should be doing that. they're not doing that in the states right now. the states have control. we need federal policy that actually has, you know, kids, boys having more options in high school to do these kinds of things, you know, become, you know, technicians and welders and things like that. that's what the federal department of education should be doing. that kind of policy to actually grow american jobs. >> do you think with what you

listed out with these big functions being written into statute, meaning that it would take an act of congress to change things about, do you think this is are you saying you think this is more of a scare tactic and threat? or do you think that this effort that's being led by elon musk and doge. will? actually impact the department of education? >> it will totally impact the department of education, but more than the department of education, it will impact individuals. think about both in terms of treasury and in terms of education. the amount of personal, private financial information that that department has, just like treasury has all the information of social security, all the information of taxes in the department of education. it has so much personal information for people. so the question is, why is an unelected person who is taking

this information? private information from people who have trusted the department of education to give them their financial information? that, to me is the scariest thing. nobody elected donald trump or elon musk to take their private information. >> there's a lot of big questions. and you mentioned linda mcmahon. she's the trump's pick to be the education secretary. she hasn't even had a confirmation hearing even set yet. i don't think so. there's a whole lot of there's a whole lot in the mix here of just uncertainty. but we do know that this is under discussion. and we do know people have been put on paid administrative leave. so we need to see where these next steps go. randy, thank you for coming in sarah. >> welcome. >> thank you so much. paging doctor gupta. the fda just did something that could be a game changer for people living with pain. they have approved the first new painkiller since the late 90s, and it is without the use of the highly addictive opioids. cnn chief medical

correspondent dr. sanjay gupta joining us now. okay, so in preparation for you, because you're a brilliant human being and i can just try to do my little research, i saw that the cdc said that in 2021, 20% of u.s. adults deal with chronic pain in this country. that's like 50 million people. it's like an astonishing number. what can you tell us about this new pain medication that is unique compared to others? >> yeah. >> you're exactly. >> right on those numbers. and they're actually increasing at a faster rate than a lot of other. >> diseases. >> including heart. >> disease and diabetes. >> so we. >> are a country, frankly. >> a world in. >> a lot of pain. so this is. >> very welcome news, sara. and big news. the medication we're talking about is suzetrigine. that's what it's called or journavx ax is going to be the trade name um, you know, celebrex was the last medication you were talking about that was approved in 1998. we typically approve dozens of medications every year, but this is the

first pain medication. it is pretty unique because in many ways it is an alternative to opioids, but it does not have the same effect, doesn't give you the same sort of euphoria as opioids. so people don't expect that there are going to be issues with addiction when you have opioid medications, they typically are working on the brain. they're essentially sedating you that that's how they work with these new this new medication. it's changing the way that the pain signals are processed at the site of the pain. so if you have pain in your foot, for example, it's changing those pain signaling processes over there, not letting the signal actually get to the brain. and that's what seems to really help. so it's a totally new way of dealing with pain. non-sedating non euphoric. hopefully non-addictive as well. >> i love it when you bring props and especially when you bring out the brain. i really. >> i try not to leave without it. >> yes thank you. i mean since you are a neurosurgeon who just happens to be a correspondent and a father and a thousand other things, how big of an

impact, though might, might this medication make? >> well, it's just what you were saying. i mean, there's a lot of pain out there. so if you just look at the numbers, there's about 80 million pain prescriptions that are filled every year, 80 million in the united states. half of those roughly have been for opioids. and we all know i don't have to tell you what the impact of too many opioids has been on society as a whole. so this is potentially going to help address that market. of those 50% opioids and offering them an alternative. i want to be clear, it's not going to be for everyone. it's not going to replace opioids for everyone, but it could be a pretty big deal for a lot of people. >> yeah, it's really an important new discovery. and let's hope that there are no major issues like they were with opioids. now the drug has this backstory. i understand that you have learned about what is it? >> it's a fascinating backstory. so i'll tell you quickly, there was a family in pakistan that could walk on hot coals. okay, so walking on really hot coals, obviously difficult to do. people have

been able to do that because they didn't feel anything with this family. they could feel that they were walking on coals. they could feel that the coals were hot. they just didn't have the pain. so they had a gene that was selective for not experiencing pain, but still having sensation, still feeling the coals, still feeling that they were hot. that was really important. you can you can create numbness in someone's foot, for example. that would take away pain. that's not a good solution. the idea that they could actually selectively just address pain is what they found in this family. they found a gene for it, and that gene was was the precursor really in some ways, the inspiration for this new medication that we're talking about. >> that is incredible. what an incredible backstory. i love that story. um, so dr. sanjay gupta, i love you as well. thank you so much for getting up early for us this morning. i do appreciate it. and scan the qr code on your screen and head to cnn.com and send us your questions about pain medications. doctor gupta is

going to be back later this week to answer those questions for you. john, why are you looking me like that? >> because i want to find out if i have the not feeling hot coals. gene. >> i have been told by by my many doctors. i just love going there that i have a high pain tolerance. >> well, you put up with me every day. so, so so i'd say yes. >> this is a fact. >> i'd say yes. very painful. all right. happening now. stock futures are pointing in a direction okay. some up, some down somewhere. pain threshold high. we are standing by for the opening bell on wall street and its response to the new trade war with china. and this morning, a stern warning to blake lively and justin baldoni from a judge as both sides get ready for a heated trial. >> paging. doctor gupta is brought to you by vivo. high triolo and vivo smart. >> if you have. generalized

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gate and started punching ortiz. the brawl lasted about a minute, with more people joining in. and so there were further arrests for those who participated in the brawl. sarah. >> all right. to another case that is expected to go to court this morning. a new stern warning from the judge overseeing actress blake lively. and director and actor justin baldoni's massive and very public legal fight. lawyers for both parties during the case's first pretrial hearing were told to stop their war of words. that is playing out in the media. the judge warning that making public statements could force the trial to be moved up from march of next year. lively has accused her. it ends with us costar and director of sexual harassment. baldoni has countersued for defamation. entertainment attorney and former litigator lisa bonner is with us now. thank you so much, lisa, for joining us this morning. there is quite a bit of interest in

this story as people watch a very public battle. you don't always see this all the time. this this judge, as you heard and as you know, has warned the two of them and their attorneys not to play this out in the media. what could the judge do if they continue to come at each other by, for example, publishing or, you know, leaking talking points to, to media outlets to argue their case in the court of public opinion. >> good morning. sara. well, yesterday's hearing was just about. >> the pretrial. >> motions to basically talk about what's going to happen going forward. now, what he did say, as you said. >> he admonished. >> them, but he did stop short of issuing a gag order in the court. so what? >> basically. >> he said, we need to take down the temperature. we need to stop giving information that would prejudice a potential jury pool. and let's just play by the rules of the new york professional rules of conduct. >> but if. >> they keep this up, the judge will move up the trial date and he could issue a gag order and

basically stop them from talking to the press at all. he stopped short of doing that yesterday, but that is still on the table. >> yeah, you don't want to go against the gag order, because then there are lots of other potential repercussions there. so blake lively has said that she and i'm quoting here faced, quote, repeated sexual harassment and other disturbing behavior by mr. baldoni and a producer on the film, and that he and his pr team set out to destroy her reputation. there were texts that she revealed to try and prove that. for his part, baldoni is saying there was no sexual harassment, and he claims it was actually lively who set out to ruin his reputation and in some way steal the film, where he was an actor and director and his production company produced this film. how does this go forward when they are both suing each other? do the cases come at each other at the same time, or does a suit and a countersuit? how does this work in court? >> well. >> a couple of things. one, they

had suits on both on both coasts. so the judge basically consolidated some of the court cases and the the plaintiffs and the defendants on each side consolidated some of their cases because they said there was no sense in litigating these cases on both coasts. however, it is going to be they said, the initial trial for march 26th. so this is the case against blake lively's case against justin baldoni that is going to move forward. so these are cases of counter cases and countersuits. and so we will actually see as it goes out as it comes time for discovery, what will happen with the additional cases, the amended complaints, et cetera.. but right now this case is set for march 2026. >> yeah, it's a it's a wild out, which is sort of how the courts work. i mean, for people who aren't familiar, things don't usually just show up. and i think a lot of people have gotten used to sort of the cases that involved president former. well, at the time, former president trump, going very quickly through the courts. but

that's not how things normally work. i'm curious how unusual it might be for a civil case like this to actually go all the way to a jury and be heard in court and not be settled like they often are. well. >> there's a lot of speculation. >> in the. >> legal, in the legal courts of opinion whether or not this case is actually going to go forward. this seems like a battle of text messages, a battle of he said. she said, uh, a battle of the sleuths, the internet sleuths versus the journalists. so it is going to be very interesting to see how much time, how much money each side is willing to spend. and it seems to me that they would want to settle this case and not take this into the court of public opinion any further, because both sides have really suffered in terms of their public reputation. you have team justin and you have team blake and the dueling narratives going back and forth. it's just